Soccer Snakes Game Review

Soccer Snakes Game Background

Soccer Snakes combines elements of the classic mobile game Snake with one of the world’s favorite sports. Move your snake around and have it push the ball toward your goal to score. Score more points than your opponents within the time limit to win.

How to Play Soccer Snakes

Select by left clicking with your mouse. On the welcome screen, select the game mode to open the main menu. Choosing CPU on the left pits you against a computer player whereas selecting Player vs. Player allows you to play against a friend. From the main menu, select the match mode to begin.

Use your keyboard to control the game once it starts. Press the space bar to start the game. As the red human player, press the left arrow key to turn counterclockwise and the right arrow to turn clockwise. Press the up arrow to gain a speed boost. As the yellow human player, press the A or Q keys to turn counterclockwise and D to turn clockwise. Press the W or Z keys to move forward.

Note that the key differences for the Yellow player apply to Qwerty and Azerty keyboard layouts. Although this game may load on touchscreen devices, its controls were optimized for desktops with keyboards.

If playing against a computer player, choose from any of the two difficulty levels on the left side of the main menu.

Basic Gameplay Advice

Basic Rules

The snakes automatically move forward. Once they enter the goals, they will come out of the opposite goal. Steer the snakes around and push the balls toward your goals. Your goal is always in the opposite side of where your snake begins. You must also block your opponent’s attempts to bring the ball to their goal.

Kick the ball harder by using a boost. You start each round with a full boost bar. To use a boost, the boost bar must be full. Charge up the boost bar by consuming food pellets that appear onscreen.

Each time you score a goal, you must release the snakes again. To win, meet the conditions you chose before the start of the match. Upon the end of the match, press the space bar or select the reset button to play again, or select the exit button to return to the main menu.

Game Modes

The game has three modes, which indicate the win condition needed to finish the game. First to 3 is the simplest of the modes. As the name suggests, the player who scores three goals first is the winner.

Timer mode, meanwhile, provides you with a time limit. Score as many times as you can before the 60-second timer expires. Each time a player scores a goal, the timer freezes until the snakes are released again. Repeat the process until the timer expires. The player with the most points by the end of 60 seconds wins. If the timer ends with a tie, the next player who scores a goal wins.

The sudden death mode is the most competitive and difficult of all. A player only needs to score one goal to win.

Advanced Playing Tips & Strategy

Move toward the ball as soon as you can and start pushing. Use the early boost once an opening is available to maximize your chances of pushing the ball to your goal at the start of the game.

Use your ability to enter a goal to block your opponent’s attempts if you’re too far away to chase after them.

Educational Aspects

The game helps develop a player’s response times and hand-eye coordination.

Player Age Recommendations

This game is suited for older school-aged players and above. We recommend this game for players who like soccer- and air hockey-style games.